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The Italian Coast Guard is leading rescue efforts to save at least 400 migrants adrift on a boat in the Mediterranean Sea between Italy and Malta, along an immigration route that NGOs have warned is perilously dangerous.
Italy's coast guard said it was trying on Monday to rescue 1,200 more migrants aboard two boats on the Mediterranean Sea after saving about 2,000 already over the weekend. The rescue of about 800 migrants aboard an overloaded fishing boat was ongoing, the coast guard said.
Multiple NGOs are involved in an unfolding situation in the Mediterranean with a small boat overloaded and drifting with as many as 400 migrants caugh.
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